https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-restaurant-staff-workers-wages-minimum-automation-menu-prices-2021-7

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    lmao, I'm calling bullshit, automating is fucking expensive. But even if it were true, good. Fuck these jobs, no one want's to do them and the more automated capitalism becomes the more it breaks and the faster people realise it doesn't work.

    A dying empire making empty threats to desperately keep the peasants under their boot.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      A dying empire making empty threats to desperately keep the peasants under their boot.

      Have to say it's been awesome seeing workers putting pressure on small business tyrants like this.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The thing that bites these idiots in the ass is that they have been pretty mask off about the fact that they were always going to start automating as much as they can anyway. If you're being offered pay that doesn't even meet your basic needs and your job isn't too secure then why bother in the first place? Eventually, the threats and guilt-tripping stops working and people tell employers to go fuck themselves.

        This is the true test of "It's your choice to work there."

      • RowPin [they/them]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        My wife got a pay raise from $9/hr to $15 because they couldn't find anyone to hire. Thank you based extended UI

      • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Just scrolling thru random social media, I see more of it now than at any other point. People turning on billionaires, executives, CEOs...

        It would be awesome if it weren't because of imminent catastrophe